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Page 13
... verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticism has ...
... verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticism has ...
Page 52
... verses left imperfect by the author , in imitation of Virgil , whom he supposes not to have intended to complete them : that this opinion is erroneous may be probably concluded , because this truncation is imitated by no subsequent ...
... verses left imperfect by the author , in imitation of Virgil , whom he supposes not to have intended to complete them : that this opinion is erroneous may be probably concluded , because this truncation is imitated by no subsequent ...
Page 402
... verses contained a character of the principal English poets , inscribed to Henry Sacheverell , who was then , if not a poet , a writer of verses ; as is shewn by his version of a small part of Virgil's Georgicks , published in the ...
... verses contained a character of the principal English poets , inscribed to Henry Sacheverell , who was then , if not a poet , a writer of verses ; as is shewn by his version of a small part of Virgil's Georgicks , published in the ...
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